5 May
2002
5 May
'02
4:59 a.m.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
Maybe so. And maybe he should be commended for his restraint.
jbdigriz
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, James B. DiGriz wrote:
Sellam, given UCITA, DMCA, SSSCA/DBTPA, Sen Hollings new "privacy" bill,
, and Sen. Burns spam bill., and on, and on, with more every day, as
well as the continuing affront to freedom and progress of the
proprietary software model, I could care less if Richard Stallman
collects his toe jam in a jar, lets it ferment, and spreads it on a
sandwich for lunch.
kept between the lines. Kinda hard to do that when
people single you out
for public comments about your personal hygiene.
Oh come on, if I sat there and picked my nose and ate my boogers in front
of the assembled VCF crowd, you'd be sure to hear comments about it.
Hell, I'D bring that up if it was not me doing it.
A lot of people *don't*, or maybe don't
want to understand all this and
see any intransigence that can be portrayed as irrelevant or anti-social
in some way as a sign of compulsive, fascistic, control-freak tendencies
and ego problems. There are people in the open-source movement even who
All I remember is that when I met Stallman at Linux World in San Jose a
couple years ago, he was a complete dick, whereas Eric Raymond was way
cool, and Linus Torvalds, even though he seemed a bit agitated because he
probably had a very busy schedule and had his wife and two kids at his
side to tend to, still took the time to pose with me for a picture.